Aardman studios use claymation, which is stop motion animation that is made out of

clay. To which there are many different job roles that are involved. A few of the jobs

that are involved are Director and Producer, Art Directors, Animators, Editors, Model

Makers, Sculptors, Painters and many more.

Job Roles

Director: The director is in charge and looks over every

department within the process of making the film.

However, with some films like ‘Wallace and Gromit in

the Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ there are two directors

who are Nick Park and Steve Box. Both directors would

have put their minds together to come up with ideas and

work as partners to produce the finished product. For

example, they would talk about shot’s that they want

within the film and then they would work on that shot

together and expand their ideas to achieve the shot, as they both would want.

Producer: A Producer is the person who would put money into the film and

sometimes help by inputting their ideas into the film. For example, the producer on

the Aardman TV series, Julie Lockhart, would have helped put money towards what

she felt needed the money. If she had thought that the show needed more

advertisement she would talk to the filmmakers and come to an agreement with them

to put money and her own ideas to get the advertising in production.

Art Director: The art director of Aardman would be the person in charge of things

like the set design and the model makers. Looking over, keeping a watch and

organizing groups like the painters, model makers, sculptures, set designers and more

the art director has a large reasonability as they need to get the production of arts

ready on time for filming.

Animator: An animator is a person who shoots each frame of the animated film. The animator for Wallace and Gromit the curse of the were-rabbit, Will Becher will have to film and take shots of every frame of the film so when they are put together and played through it is as if it's one continuos shot.

Editor: An editor of a film is in charge of putting all the of the footage together to produce a final film. The editors, in Aardmans case David McCormick, will look at each frame and of and place them together in the correct order to make up the final cut of the movie.